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Principles for Human-Centred Design of IR Interfaces

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Since the ‘80s, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers have performed a lot of work to identify principles, techniques, and methodologies that can support design, evaluation and implementation of interactive systems that fulfill needs and expectations of their users. This chapter discusses concepts, such as usability and user experience, which are of great importance for the success of interactive systems, illustrating how Human-Centred Design is fundamental to create successful user interfaces. Principles proposed by the HCI community to support interface design are presented, analyzing the principles that have a major impact on IR interfaces.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via Orabona 4, Bari, Italy

    Maria Francesca Costabile & Paolo Buono

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padua, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  3. Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Via alla Cascata 56/c, 38123, Povo, TN, Italy

    Pamela Forner

  4. University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, TechnoArk 3, 3960, Sierre, Switzerland

    Henning Müller

  5. Department of Computer, Control and Management, Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Santucci

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Costabile, M.F., Buono, P. (2013). Principles for Human-Centred Design of IR Interfaces. In: Agosti, M., Ferro, N., Forner, P., Müller, H., Santucci, G. (eds) Information Retrieval Meets Information Visualization. PROMISE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36415-0_2

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